"exceptions were when Ford Motor Company and, subsequently, Wrigley's Gum sponsored it during part of 1950. Gene D. Phillips, in the book ""Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir"", reported Chandler's lack of involvement with the program: ""Initially Chandler had considered asking for script approval for the Marlowe radio series, but ultimately he decided to have no connection with the scripting of the programs. He contented himself with the weekly royalties he received for the use of his character, while professing himself 'moderately pleased' with Gerald Mohr's portrayal of Marlowe."" The first NBC episode had a script"
"names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe. His first two stories, ""Blackmailers Don't Shoot"" and ""Smart-Aleck Kill"" (with a detective named Mallory), were never altered in print but did join the others as Marlowe cases for the television series ""Philip Marlowe, Private Eye"". Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in ""Black Mask"" magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative and philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to"
"Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6915 Hollywood Blvd. Powell was the first actor to play private detective Philip Marlowe on radio, in 1944 and 1945. Lux Radio Theatre appearances: Dick Powell Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. Powell was born in"
"Dick Powell Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. Powell was born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas. The family moved to Little Rock in 1914, where Powell sang in church choirs and with local orchestras, and"
"commented that ""Marlowe just grew out of the pulps. He was no one person."" When creating the character, Chandler had originally intended to call him Mallory; his stories for the ""Black Mask"" magazine featured characters that are considered precursors to Marlowe. The emergence of Marlowe coincided with Chandler's transition from writing short stories to novels. Chandler was said to have taken the name Marlowe from Marlowe House, to which he belonged during his time at Dulwich College. Marlowe House was named for Christopher Marlowe, a hard-drinking Elizabethan writer who graduated in philosophy and worked secretly for the government. Philip Marlowe"
"Private Eye (game) Private Eye is a video game developed by Brooklyn Multimedia and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Windows in 1996 and Macintosh in 1997. ""Private Eye"" is an interactive murder mystery starring Philip Marlowe. ""Next Generation"" reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that ""Unfortunately, there just isn't much game to hang it on. A click or two every 10 minutes does not balance out the hole it'll leave in your checkbook. Even with its alternate endings and intriguing story, you'd probably be better off renting ""The"
"Stephen Marlowe Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, in Brooklyn, New York, died , in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created in the 1955 novel ""The Second Longest Night"". Lesser also wrote under the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder and Ellery Queen. Lesser attended the College of William & Mary, earning his degree in philosophy, marrying Leigh Lang shortly after graduating. The couple"
"Where's Marlowe? Where's Marlowe? is a 1998 comedy mystery film written by Daniel Pyne and John Mankiewicz. Daniel Pyne also directed the film. After making a three-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of ""Boone and Murphy"". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business the two film-makers must resort to a"
"episode of the HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Smart-Aleck Kill Smart-Aleck Kill is a short story by writer Raymond Chandler. It was first published in July 1934 in the magazine ""Black Mask"". Private detective Mallory has been hired by a film studio to handle a blackmail threat against director Derek Whalen, but Whalen is uncooperative. Two armed men barge into the apartment and demand payment from Walden. They take Mallory and leave for the bank, but Mallory’s driver helps him escape. Later, Mallory receives a call from Walden’s girlfriend worrying about him; Mallory checks on him and finds him"
"portray Philip Marlowe more than once on the big screen. In 1941 Los Angeles, against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking, private detective Philip Marlowe is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the hour. As he explains to his police lieutenant friend Nulty: ""I've got a hat, a coat and a gun; that's it."" Marlowe has been hired by a huge and surly ex-convict, Moose Malloy, to find his old girlfriend Velma, whom he hasn't seen in seven years. At the same time, Marlowe is investigating the"
"hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure the completion of their movie. Miguel Ferrer – Joe Boone <br> John Livingston – A.J. Edison <br> Mos Def – Wilt Crawley <br> John Slattery – Kevin Murphy Where's Marlowe? Where's Marlowe? is a 1998 comedy mystery film written by Daniel Pyne and John Mankiewicz. Daniel Pyne also directed the film. After making a three-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of ""Boone and Murphy"". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring"
"Studios. Four chapters of a novel, unfinished at his death, were transformed into a final Philip Marlowe novel, ""Poodle Springs"", by the mystery writer and Chandler admirer Robert B. Parker, in 1989. Parker shares the authorship with Chandler. Parker subsequently wrote a sequel to ""The Big Sleep"" entitled ""Perchance to Dream"", which was salted with quotes from the original novel. Chandler's final Marlowe short story, circa 1957, was entitled ""The Pencil"". It later provided the basis of an episode of the HBO miniseries (1983–86), ""Philip Marlowe, Private Eye"", starring Powers Boothe as Marlowe. In 2014, ""The Princess and the Pedlar"""
"name combines the surnames of fictional detective Philip Marlowe (e.g. ""Marlo"") and his creator Raymond Chandler. Marlo first appeared as an aerobics and swimming instructor and was a love interest for the casino security enforcer ""Joe Fixit"", in reality the Hulk, believed dead, and now living ""incognito"", his true identity unknown to Marlo. She ended their relationship after seeing him brutally kill an enemy. They later reconciled after Hulk reached out to her in a rare display of emotion and their relationship was able to end in a more amicable way. She later appeared as the girlfriend of Rick Jones,"
"suggests that Marlowe went into exile, and wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Ingram Frizer Ingram Frizer ( ; died August 1627) was an English gentleman and businessman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who is notable for his reported killing of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the home of Eleanor Bull on 30 May 1593. He has been described as ""a property speculator, a commodity broker, a fixer for gentlemen of good worship"" and a confidence trickster gulling ""young fools"" out of their money. There is no definite information regarding Frizer's origins, but he may have"
"Long Fiction. First appeared in ""The Mammoth Book of Dracula"", 1997. The story's first-person narrator, a private investigator, investigates the death of his ex-wife, found at the bottom of her swimming pool with an iron spike driven through her forehead, and the disappearance of her daughter, last seen falling in with a crowd of vampire cultists. (The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring, whom Marlowe married in Chandler's unfinished final novel ""Poodle Springs""—after initially rejecting the idea because he knew it would not"
"be thrown away without a backward glance ... and any notions of friendship and loyalty are meaningless."" Late one night, private investigator Philip Marlowe is visited by his close friend Terry Lennox, who asks for a lift from Los Angeles to the California–Mexico border at Tijuana. Marlowe obliges. On returning home, Marlowe is met by two police detectives, who accuse Lennox of having murdered his rich wife, Sylvia. Marlowe refuses to give them any information, so they arrest him. After he is jailed for three days, the police release him, because they have learned that Lennox has committed suicide in"
"whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago. Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is one of the first examples of the modern style of fictional private detective. This character is described as an ""'Everyman' detective meant to challenge the detective-as-superman that Holmes represented."" By the late 1920s, Al Capone and the Mob were inspiring not only fear, but piquing mainstream curiosity about the American crime underworld. Popular pulp fiction magazines like ""Black Mask"" capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( or ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a ""consulting detective"" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ""A Study in Scarlet"", the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ""The Strand Magazine"", beginning with ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" in 1891; additional tales appeared"
"Ed Bishop George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop, was an American actor based in the United Kingdom. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in ""UFO"", Captain Blue in ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"" and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler. George Victor Bishop was born on 11 June 1932, the son of a Manhattan banker, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Peekskill High School before a brief spell at teacher training college. Bishop served in the United"
"Robert Poley Robert Poley, or Pooley (fl. 1568–1602) was an English double agent, government messenger and ""agent provocateur"" employed by members of the Privy Council during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; he was described as ""the very genius of the Elizabethan underworld"". Poley is particularly noted for his central role in uncovering the so-called Babington plot to assassinate the Queen in 1586, and for being a witness of, and even a possible party to, the reported killing in self-defence by Ingram Frizer of the famous poet/dramatist Christopher Marlowe in May 1593. There is no known record of Poley's birth"
"The Long Goodbye (novel) The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to ""The Big Sleep"" or ""Farewell, My Lovely"", but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel ""my best book"". The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was later adapted as"
"Parker). All but ""Playback"" have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is considered to be a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other ""Black Mask"" writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with ""private detective"". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be"
"for that film. ""Electra Glide in Blue"" (1973) is another rare example of a murder-mystery plot used as a vehicle for a story concerning greater issues. In this case, disillusionment and the death of dreams and idealism in a world full of immorality. Since the mid-1970s, only a handful of films with private detectives have been produced. These include ""I, the Jury"", ""Angel Heart"", ""Hollywood Harry"", ""The Two Jakes"", ""Devil in a Blue Dress"", ""Pure Luck"", ""Under Suspicion"", ""Twilight"" with Paul Newman, and Ben Affleck's ""Gone Baby Gone"". Raymond Chandler's original Philip Marlowe short stories from the '30s (which he"
"George Pollock (director) George Pollock (March 27, 1907 – December 22, 1979) was a British film director, best known for bringing Agatha Christie's famous detective Miss Marple to the big screen for the first time, starring Margaret Rutherford. Born in Leicester, England in 1907, Pollock began his career as an assistant director in the mid 30s. He collaborated with David Lean on such films as ""Brief Encounter"", ""Great Expectations"" and ""Oliver Twist"". His first film as director was ""Stranger in Town"" in 1957. However, he is most famous for bringing Miss Marple to the big screen for the first time"
"BBC Radio 4 was broadcast in October 2011, starring Toby Stephens as Marlowe. Poodle Springs Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title ""The Poodle Springs Story"", were subsequently published in ""Raymond Chandler Speaking"" (1962), a collection of excerpts from letters and unpublished writings. In 1988, on the occasion of the centenary of Chandler's birth, the crime writer Robert B. Parker was asked by the estate of Raymond Chandler to complete the"
"of unimpugnable evidence"". In 2012, they renewed this call in their e-book ""Shakespeare Bites Back"", adding that it ""denies history"", and again the following year in their book ""Shakespeare Beyond Doubt"". Marlowe has been used as a character in plays, novels, films and TV-productions. The dates of composition are approximate. The play ""Lust's Dominion"" was attributed to Marlowe upon its initial publication in 1657, though scholars and critics have almost unanimously rejected the attribution. He may also have written or co-written ""Arden of Faversham"". Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593),"
"is one of the most talented people I've ever worked with, and my only sadness was that he didn't go on to become an international star. I would have loved him to have perhaps been James Bond."" Gerry Anderson - ""UFO"" producer. Ed Bishop George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop, was an American actor based in the United Kingdom. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in ""UFO"", Captain Blue in ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"" and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the"
"films, nearly 100 TV scripts, including the award-winning ""Explorers"" series (""Ten Who Dared"" in the United States). Their verse play ""Ghost Town"" won several awards in the U.S. In 1984 and 1986, their TV series ""Philip Marlowe, Private Eye"" won three awards in the USA and in the Netherlands. In 1987, Pat and Jesse wrote the play ""Vivien"" based on their book ""Love Scene"", the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Pat directed its highly acclaimed first production at the Melrose Theatre in Los Angeles (1987) and directed the London rehearsed reading of ""Viven"" in 1992. Pat produced, wrote,"
"Australian documentary film maker who, in 2001, made the TV film ""Much Ado About Something"" in which the Marlovian theory was explored in some detail, and the creation in 2009 of the International Marlowe-Shakespeare Society which has continued to draw the theory to the public's attention. As far as is generally accepted by mainstream scholars, Christopher Marlowe died on 30 May 1593 as the result of a knife wound above the right eye inflicted upon him by Ingram Frizer, an acquaintance with whom he had been dining. Together with two other men, Robert Poley and Nicholas Skeres, they had spent"
"Big Sleep"" (the Bogart version, not Mitchum)."" Private Eye (game) Private Eye is a video game developed by Brooklyn Multimedia and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Windows in 1996 and Macintosh in 1997. ""Private Eye"" is an interactive murder mystery starring Philip Marlowe. ""Next Generation"" reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that ""Unfortunately, there just isn't much game to hang it on. A click or two every 10 minutes does not balance out the hole it'll leave in your checkbook. Even with its alternate endings and intriguing story,"
"Private Detective (film) Private Detective is a 1939 American drama film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by Earle Snell and Raymond L. Schrock. The film stars Jane Wyman and Dick Foran and is based on the short story ""Invitation to Murder"" by Kay Krausse in the ""Pocket Detective Magazine"". It was released by Warner Bros. on December 9, 1939. Millard Lannon (John Eldredge) sues his ex-wife Mona Lannon (Gloria Dickson) for the custody of their son. The owner of the Nation-Wide Detective Agency, where Myrna Winslow (Jane Wyman) works asks her to testify against Mona. Myrna refuses because"
"Dupin is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story. He reappears in ""The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"" (1842) and ""The Purloined Letter"" (1844). C. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction. The character served as the prototype for many that were created later, including Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie. Conan Doyle once wrote, ""Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has"